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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-05-28
The JOURNEY.

After crossing the Red Sea- instead of 60
pg directly toward Canaan, the land of their
destination, Moses led the Israelites south
ward in the direction of Horeb, through the
wilderness of Shur. After three days they
came to fountain of bitter waters, which
was called Marah, and which, when the peo
pie murmured, Moses sweetened by putting
into it a tree (probably the leaves or fruit of
tree) which COP showed him. Travellers
have identified place, called Howard, about
thirty-five miles south of Ayun Musa, as the
bitter fount which the Israelites called Ma
rah. The water is said to be bitter or brack-
ish from the presence of sulphate of lime
which it holds in solution. Any plant or
fruit containing oxalic acid would immedi-
atele precipitate the lime and render the
water agreeable and wholesome. Arab sheiks
informed Lesseps, as reported by Eber,
that they were accustomed to put a kind of
barberry which grows in the region into such
water to make it palatable. In other coun-
tries there are plants and trees which are
known to possess the qualities ascribed to
the tree which Moses employed. This expert
ence proved test of the faith and confidence
of the Israelites in their Divine Leader. By
bitter experience their faith was soon over
come. By the providence GoD would prove
to Israel His purpose to guide and govern
them always, and that they might depend
upon His protection and help in every trouble.
From Marah the next encampment was
Elm, six miles south, where was luxuriant
valley containing groves and an abundance
of water. In this lovely oasis Israel began to
learn what its "sweet singer" afterward put
into its songs, that the LORD could make His
people lie down in green pastures and beside
the still waters, even in the barren desert.
Here is spot that invited rest and promised
refreshment, and we may reasonably con-
clude that the host tarried here for a few
days at least. When they journeyed from
Elm, we learn from Numbers xxxiii. 10, that
they next encamped by the Red Sea. When
they returned again to the shore of the sea
we are not told. 1t may have been that there
were springs of water there, or the place may
have been port for supplying from Egypt
the Sinai mining region. For supplies of
some kind they doubtless encamped by the
sea. From there they were led into the will
derness of Sin, which was between Elm and
Sinai, the most desolate and dismal region of
the whole peninsula. This point was reached
after a month or six weeks journey from
Goshen. Their stores of food brought from
Egypt were doubtless almost, if not entirely,
exhausted. The situation was not favorable
for securing new supplies for so vast a null
titude, and the people grew frightened at the
prospect of famine and starvation which now
threatened, and their faith faltered, and in
the presence of the new danger they appear
to have forgotten the marvellous provision of
the past and again complain to Moses and
Aaron of their hard lot and cruel fate.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-05-28

quired, "What shall we drink" GoD gra-
them on to the flowing streams of the green
and shady oasis. They left the place of
palms and fountains and came into the
wilderness of Sin. Here, as their supplies
diminished, they again ''murmured," and
expressed the wish that they had died of the
plaques in Egypt-where, though they were
wretched on account of the work they had to
do, they had plenty to eat-rather than in the
desert by slow starvation.
The Israelites had not yet learned the les
son that liberty with privation is of more
value than slavery with material abundance.
1t is lesson worth the learning, and has
been conned by many races in the world his
tory. The freedmen of our own country are
slowly learning this lesson; not without muir
murings, however, at some of the unexpected
hardships of their new experience. There
may be more comfort to the body and free
dom from anxious care for the comforts and
necessities of the bodily life in dependence,
but there is more development of the char
acter and manhood in independence. The
lsraellIeS IOrBOb III tue HdEuSIiPo VI Ioouou
those of bondage.
In our experience of the privations and
hardehips incident to life we are apt to for
get the manifold mercies of GoD. childish
want of patience and faith is too frequently
manifested by the most favored of GoD's
children. A sigh for the "good old times"
is but cry of the respondent and faithless
nh a. I-ll1
than the present " is the doleful song of the
"fearful and unbelieving" who have their
part in the fiery lake of despair. "The
LORD is my Shepherds shall not want" is
the Psalm of all COPS faithful ones.
"Oh, for a faith that will not shrink
Though pressed by every foe;
That will not tremble on the brink
Of any earthly woep'
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TALKS About 7HEBlBlE
10 THE YOUNG FOLKS.
eY JOHN Q. ADAMS, DID,.

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The Sunday Sehno1.
LESSON FOR JUNE 5, 1887.
MAMMA.

BY REV. ROBERT I. POLK.
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MURAIURING.

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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29
PERSONAL.

Fifteen years ago David Hostetter was a
peddler, now he is worth SlG,O00,0O0.
The New York house formerly occupied by
ex-President Arthur was recently sold by his
executors for S24,750
Long John Wentworth is having monu.
ment to himself erected in cemetery at
Chicago at a cost of S32 600
Mr.. Charles F. Crisp, congressman from
Georgia, is the son of an actor who had
wide reputation thirty years ago.
Prof. Max Muller rejoices in more titles of
scholarship and literary societies than any
other living man. He can affix to his name
forty-one different titles.
Paul Boyton, the swimmer, speaks five
languages fluently. He is IS years old, five
feet ten and one-half inches in height, with
bronzed complexion, fair hair and blue eyes.
James NJ. Hubbard, the author of the song
at Was My Last Cigar" is an employe of the
Chicago postoffice. He has never made a
penny out of it. owing to the want of a copy
right
w. n. Haldeman is the principal owner Of
The Louisville Courier Journal He is a man
of the southern type, wears full gray whisk-
ers and long gray hair, is 55 years old and
remarkably energetic
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

California is now turning out steel equal to
the best manufactured.
The consumption of matches per head of
population is in Germany s, England 10 and
France IL.
Electric lamps are now used by the pearl
fishers. The light is thrown into the water
and aid thus given to the diver.
Out of the $50, 600 carbons burned daily in
the electric lights used in the United States.
100000 are manufactured in Cleveland, O..
Six years ago all the carbons burned in the
country were made in a single room in Boston
1t is a well known fact among railroad
men that on railroads running north and
south the west rails wear out the fastest-that
five rails will wear out on the west side of the
track while three are doing service on the
east side.
A use has been found for the old tomato
cans which adorn our back yards and high.
ways, After being Strengthened out into
flat sheets and the solder melted off they
form the corners and edge pieces of CHEAP
trunks and the flushings on roofs.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29

The new chemical sweet is said to be
perfect and Interchangeable antiscptic 1t
is not susceptible to fermentation lik-
the cane and grape sugars. 1t will keep
yeast for years. and preserve Strawberries
and other perishable fruits any length of
time in the same condition they are when
gathered from the garden. 1t is not
necessary to cook them or to keep them
in vessels Theoretically sealed. 1t is also
said to be strictly anti-drebetic. and it is
recommended by leading German physi-
claus or persons who can not eat any
ordinary kinds of sweetening. APP
parently "saccharine" will be of no value
as food, for it is said to pass through the
organs of digestion unchanged. But as
a condiment it will be as valuable as
sugar, and as preserver of many articles
of food it will have no equal
1t is thought that ''saccharine' will be
extensively used for combining with
glucose in proportions that will make the
latter substance the equal of cane sugar.
If this can be done. and German experts
state that it is practical, the making of
glucose will be more profitable than ever
before, while the industry of cane grow
my anu sugar rellnlng VIII DE likely 10 De
destroyed. If this substance will pre-
serve all kinds of fruit without the trou-
BILE and expense of cooking them. there
will be no business for canning factories.
or at least for those that do not put up
meat, fish and vegetables. This sub
stance will be likely to be extensively
used in all places where freights are
high, as two pounds of it would repre-
sent as much sweetness as a barrel of
sugar. and package containing that
amount could be sent through the mail
at the cost of a few cents. Chicago
Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29
THE ART WORLD.

A statue of Goethe will be erected in Fair
mount park, Philadelphia
One of the pictures which decorated the
ceiling of Mime Tussauds wax works, in Lon
don, has been discovered to be genuine Ru-
bens.
Miss Dora Wheeler, who has been visiting
Boston, has painted portraits of T. b.
Aldrich, w. ID. Howels and James Russell
Lowell
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York. has had a streak of good luck during the
past few weeks. First, Messrs Vanderbilt and
Seney made most valuable donations of paint
ings, and now Miss Catherine Wolfe be-
queaths her famous collection, besides $780,
600 in money.
c. H. Shearer a Philadelphia artist, is
about to engage upon the production Of a
mammoth work of art which will take up
ward of two years to finish. The size of the
painting will he about feet by II feet, and
the subject probably representation of a
primitive American forest.
Mr.. Story's idea of Grant monument,
which he has shaped into a clay model and
sent to New York. is a base of mausoeum
form, surmounted by dome and statue of
Grant, witt the figure of Victory in front
over the entrance and frieze on the sides il
Illustrating events of the war.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29
Built by Washington.

The mill that Washington built stands
in a ravine about half mile east of
Perryopolis, Fayctte county. 1t is still
in operation and propelled, as he de-
signed, by stream flowing down a
rugged run called after the founder of
the mill. The latter is, as might he ex-
pected, a rude structure. Originally it
consisted of but one story, and the lines
where Washington left off and the inn
provements, such as they Were, begun
are plainly discernable. The name of
the present proprietor is Samuel Smith,
who takes pride out of the fact that it
has been kept in the Smith family since
it passed from the possession of the
illustrious founder. 70 the east of this
is to be seen two of the block houses in
which Washington's slaves were housed
the only ones remaining through the
years since their occupancy. Still fur
ther east on the elevation stands the
house of Mr. Hersey one of the original
owners of that portion of the grant to
Washington upon which Perryopolis was
was built.-Pittsburg Leader.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29

Capt. COnder Of the Palestine explOra-
ton expedition, after the labor of four
years, has succeeded in deciphering and
translating the Hittite inscriptions which
have hitherto excited and tormented the
inquisitiveness of orientalists. Ten prin-
cipal texts are known, and he has inter
preted them all. They have been found
chiefly at Carchemish Klamath and
Aleppo, though Asia Minor at large has
traces of the class scattered about it. 1t
is fresh and grand stage in the astonish-
ing recent process of resurrection of a
dead and forgotten people.-London
Times
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.


W. Clark Russell's new collection Of short
stories will be "Book for the Hammock"
Joel Chandler Harris, "Uncle Remus," is
said to do all his literary work with a goose
quill
The late John G.. SAKE some years ago was
paid an annual salary of $4,000 by The New
York Ledger in consideration of furnishing
that paper one short poem a week.
Professor Henry Morley expects that his
History of English Literature" when COM
pleted will fill twenty volumes Twenty
years have now elapsed since the work was
undertaken.
At the time of May Agnes Fleming's death
she was under contract to write ten stories
for $4,000 They were to be produced at the
rate of two year, thus making her income
$4,000 year.
When paradise Lost was first published,
in 1861, Edmund Waller, himself a poet and
critic, said: "rhe old blind schoolmaster,
John Milton, has published a tedious poem on
the fall of man; if its length be not considered
a merit, it has no other"
Alexander Dumas and Victorien Sardou
are neighbors at Marty. eve are excellent
friends so says Dumas, "but we see each
other as little as possible 1t would be dsa-
greeable to him to have people in his presence
treat me as the greatest living dramatist."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29

Gen. Sheridan visited the Capitol on
the 9th of February, 1867, and was
warmly applauded, especially in the
house, where he made neat little
speech, short, quickly spoken, boldly
uttered and in every way characteristic
of the man. Gen. Grant accompanied
this unequalled young soldier, and it was
noticeable by all present how great the
contrast between the two men. There
was but little difference in their size;
Sheridan, however, was the smaller, and
hence his sobriquet of the Little Cor
poral;' but the manner of the two men
was widely different. Grant seemed SO
reserved, so modest, so abashed at the
the august presence before him, and yet
who so distinguished as he? while Phil
seemed well at home, and displayed an
air of perfect self possession refreshing to
behold. While the speaker was intro
ducing him to the house he stood in Ma
poleon's favorite position, with arms half
a-kimbo, and after his little speech of
thanks he bounced off the platform
around the speakers stand into the area
before his desk, just as he would have
leaped from his horse and walked to his
tent. The hand shakings We're long con-
tinued. and his remarks were full of the
sparkling wit and vivaciousness so char
acteristc of the Irish stock.
And yet, though so bold, so perfectly
sang froid. there was nothing offensive in
his demeanor. nothing overstrained or
put on; all seemed as graceful. as be-
coming as did the victor plume on the
iaunty hat of the daShing world start
ling hero. who evermore in the history
of our land shall be memorable for his
brilliant deeds at Winchester on that
dark day when. in the midst of rout and
defeat. he was twenty miles away,
and yet, thanks to a horse full of mettle
and heroic as his leader. smelt the battle,
gained the field. recognized an army out
of disorganized masses of men and
wrested victory from defeat, as did the
cross of st. George from the eagles of
France at Waterloo.-Ben Perley Puore
in Boston Budget.
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EDUCATIONAL. MATTERS.

President Hyde, of Bowdoin college, is the
youngest college president in the country.
The number of pupils in the Roman Catho-
lie schools in New York city is estimated at
$4,000.
All the central towns in eastern Kentucky
are working for the establishment of high
schools.
The largest graduating class in the world
is that OF the Chatauqua. In 1885 4,024
graduated.
Columbia college numbers in all its depart
ments more students than any other college in
the United States.
Nearly all of the students at the University
of Pennsylvania now wear caps and gowns.
Many of them may be seen in the stores, at
concerts and promenading on the fashionable
streets.
It has been decided by the London school
board, after much discussion, that when
corporal punishment is necessary, it shall be
administered by the head teacher and an
entry of the fact made in the log book.